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...obviating them. He shows how Boston has met some of the problems by placing her parks, her water supply, her library, city hospital, and fire department in the hands of commissions, thus relieving the mayor, aldermen, and council, of a large amount of municipal business. In Galveston, Texas, the mayor, aldermen, and council are entirely replaced by a single body whose functions are wholly administrative. There are five men elected by the people, each with a department of the city's business under his supervision. Under these commissioners the proper experts are employed and principles of business are followed. Another...
Professor A. B. Hart '80 has been granted leave of absence from the University by the Corporation until February 1, to enable him to make a study of some of the conditions of the South. He will go first to Galveston and Houston, Texas, and make first-hand investigations into the governments by commission there; and will then work eastward to Louisiana and though the strip of rural country running through southern Mississippi, Alabama, and eastern North Carolina, and South Caroline. His purpose is to see the rural South away from the railroads and other means of communication with...
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in Sayles Hall Professor A. B. Hart '80 will review the work being done by national bodies to co-ordinate and increase the influences making for progress. At 3 o'clock Dr. W. B. Munro '99, among others, will speak on "The Galveston Plan of Government," and F. H. Wheelan '80 will tell "How San Francisco is Winning Good Government." Thursday evening at 7 o'clock a dinner will be given to the members and delegates of National Municipal League; Horace E. the American Civic Association...
...reason why the form of government, which experience has found most efficient for business enterprises, the board of directors, should not serve equally well for cities. If one should say that this is impossible and Utopian, it may be pointed out that it has already been done. In Galveston, the government of the city was placed in the hands of a commission, and this body did remarkably well, in every part of the city government, in promoting working efficiency. One thing will hasten the universal application of this principle; namely, the force, the absolute power of public opinion. Events, especially...
...Cross 25 to 10. Both Harvard and Yale have played three games in the intercollegiate series and have the same standing, both having defeated Cornell and Princeton and lost to Pennsylvania. During the Christmas recess the Yale team took its usual southern and western trip going as far as Galveston. Twelve games were played with Y. M. C. A. and club teams and Yale was victorious in seven...